Working
with the red paint was an interesting first... it went on thicker
and darker than anticipated, needing a lot of steel wool work to
get it looking right. It's hard to see how the details
pulled out in these pictures.

June 20, 2008

June 15, 2008

The
engine area has been completed and primed. This is the
lighting test. For this model, I used a frosted lens behind
the thrust nozzles, a single LED sticks through the center of the
lens, providing the primary light. Five other LED's are placed behind
the frosted lens to create an overall glow. The lenses themselves
are from a pair of novelty glasses and provide and interesting distortion
effect to the light. (Note that the engine Inserts are not
yet in place. This kit came to me via a third party and the
inserts were missing. I have yet to fabricate new ones)